Verbal and Numerical Expressions of Probability: "It's a Fifty-Fifty Chance"

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  2000

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  Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes

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  Medicine, Psychology

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  DOI 10.1006/OBHD.1999.2868PMID 10631071
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